Back about a week ago I watched a Fox News program called "Red Eye."
There were a bunch of guys on this "satirical news program" that acted like a bunch of teenagers just going through puberty and the object of their scorn and weak attempts at humour was the Canadian Military.
Without getting into all the details, let's just say that their remarks about their neighbour to the north were not only juvenile, but very degrading and nasty!
The program seemed to have slipped under the radar of most media outlets since it probably has a very small audience, but after talking about it on this blog and having four more Canadian soldiers die that same day in Afghanistan, the story very quickly caught fire with the mainstream news bureau's and caused outrage here in Canada.
If these guys on "Red Eye" want to poke fun at Canadians then let them, after all, South Park did it with their "Blame Canada" spoof a while back.
But, when they ridicule the Canadian Armed Forces while we have men dying over there to help the States out, they have definitely crossed the line and owe us an apology!
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On a slightly different, and even stranger note, it seems that religious insanity has struck again kids!
Naturally it concerns the Middle-East, but the source is something that just might amaze you.
I think that by now we have all heard about something called the "Arab - Israeli" problem and have at least a passing knowledge of the issues..... Jews took/were given land...... Palestinians kicked out..... Palestinians want it back......Jews not budging..... other Arabs pissed..... Jews don't care...... etc!
WELL GUESS WHAT?
Into this mess throw three Israeli Rabbi's who believe that the Jews don't deserve a country!
No really folks, I'm not making this up!
I just read an article by Mindy Jacobs of Sun Media who says;
Gee, with Jewish "friends" like these, who needs enemies?
The International Palestine Awareness Committee, which organized the event, wondered later why no one from mainstream Jewish groups attended.
Here's a hint.
Weiss and his tiny, loopy, anti-Zionist contingent are so far removed from the Jewish norm that they're off the dial.
We here at "Perspective" have raised the issue of a -Jewish Homeland- a few times and still believe it should be Miami, since that is where they all end up anyway!
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !
Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://allans-perspective.blogspot.com
'Zionism, the movement to re-establish the Jews in their ancient homeland, is an evil "cancer" run by a bunch of "rogue thieves" that's antithetical to Judaism,' said Rabbi David Weiss as he spoke to a couple of hundred Muslims at the Edmonton Islamic Academy on Sunday.
The crowd applauded him, of course, because Weiss was apparently telling them what they wanted to hear -- that Jewish sovereignty is a rebellion against God.
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I have Canadian Cousins, former military, they weren’t offended. Mostly because what Red Eye does is SATIRE,
Allan, you should go out and rent a sense of humor, if you like it, you could get one of your own. Hehehe.
What ? Like Murtha and the rest of the liberals did to our troops? Liberal hypocrisy and double standard is still very much the norm. Pathetic
I salute the brave men and women in Canada's armed forces with exactly the same amount of high respect that I salute our American troops and my fellow veterans.
Thank you for showing that misleading obfuscation is still the norm. To set the record straight: Murtha and the "Liberals" were speaking out against the 43'rd administration's military policies and actions; NOT our troops.
During the Iran Hostage Crisis back in the late 70s Canadian Ambassarod to Iran Ken Taylor spirited six Americans out of the country on fake Canadian passports, at great risk not only to himself and his staff but also to anyone else travelling under the Canadian passport.
In the first Gulf War (you remember, the one that there was actually a reason for fighting) Canada joined in the broad coalition that helped oust Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait.
On 9/11 when the American government declared American airspace closed hundreds of diverted flights landed in Canada, far more than our airports were set-up to receive, despite the unknown danger factor (how many terrorists still in the air?) and American travellers were put up by Canadian citizens all over the country.
Canada stood beside our American allies after 9/11 and have been fighting in Afghanistan since the beginning of that war, suffering the highest casualty rate of any NATO troops in the country.
When George Bush decided to tell a bunch of lies and start a war of revenge against Iraq in 2003 Canada wisely stayed on the sidelines, unsatisfied with the rationale for the war.
After all this Faux News (not their satirical middle of the night show, either) called us "the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan".
I don't often resort to swearing in my comments on Gather, but the ingratitude of Americans for the lives spent by Canadians in defense of your country leads me to say to both FOX NEWS and anyone who share their point of view: FUCK YOU!
I usually try to maintain a polite demeanor in these kinds of online discussions but in this I echo Rory's last paragraph... in fact I'll C+P it right here:
but the ingratitude of Americans for the lives spent by Canadians in defense of your country leads me to say to both FOX NEWS and anyone who share their point of view: FUCK YOU!
A long time ago I wrote a post here on Gather asking if the American people know the names of the men and women serving their country who died every day. I wrote that because I was sick at heart every time one of our Canadians was killed.
The Canadian Government and media make sure we know as a county their names, we see their faces, and we attend their funerals and grieve with each and every family every day on television, in our papers and on the Internet. We line the highways with cars on the side of the road and people with flags are on the overpasses as the processions pass from our military bases and airports to the towns those dead men and women called home.
Why was the media in the US not allowed to film the coffins arriving daily? Do you remember the beginning of the war when the evening news named names, and numbers of dead? Bush put a stop to that didn't he?
I really believe if Americans had to witness each and every death, know the person who dies, meet their families and grieve with them - not just those from your own home town but everyone nationwide; the war would have ended by now.
I won't be turning on Fox anymore.
By the way, I have been out a lot so have not had time to start reading your book yet, but it is on my desktop!
Allan
I love Canada, and as a US citizen I am very jealous that you guys are picked on for maple syrup and hockey while we have people trying to blow our buildings up.
On the day these freaks were "teasing Canada" about our involvement in the war in Afghanistan, four more Canadians were dying from a roadside bomb. Sure, they didn't know that, just like they didn't know we were even in the war. But that is not a reflection on Canada's military contribution but a reflection of how abyssmally ignorant they are (and how abyssmally ignorant they make Americans seem by extension).
But living in America is living in the centre of the media spotlight, and it is hard to see outside the glare of that light. Because America bears the burden of empire, Americans tend to be very inward looking, very consumed by their own narrative.
Watching Canadian news programs I find a lot more information about world events than I do watching American news programs. In fact, I only ever watch American news to get information on American events. It seems to be all they really cover well.
You cannot tell a whole group of people who are hellbent on maintaining a "We're Number One" status militarily that other people or countries, are not pussies. Americans will dis anybody who does not go along with their gun programs....thier gun status, their big gun anything....With courage comes a gun..... This includes Canada and Britiain.....